Harvest of the Sixties English Literature and Its Background 1960 to 1990

by Waugh, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780192892263
• ISBN10: 0192892266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This engaging book sets English literature since 1960 in its political and cultural context. From the end of empire in the sixties, through the attempts in the 1970s to maintain a "common culture" through education, good literature, and state subsidies for the Arts, to the 1980s when there was a shift toward the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of cultures, this was a period of considerable change and development. Waugh looks at the effects of the fragmentation of English culture and examines the new and varied voices that grew up as a result of this proliferation of cultures.

Author Biography

Patricia Waugh teaches in the School of English at Durham University.

Table of Contents

Discontinuities: Politics, Crisis, and Change 1960-1990	p. 1
Continuities: Culture and Change 1960-1990	p. 22
Keeping our Metaphysics Warm: Sacred Impulses in a Secular Age	p. 58
Planners, Politics, and Poets: Intellectual Culture and the Limits of Reason after 1960	p. 107
Nation and New Identities	p. 149
Post-Consensus Fictions	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 208
Notes	p. 214
Appendix	p. 218
Chronology	p. 220
Further Reading	p. 228
Index	p. 235
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